Regarding the trade deal, “the latest batch of agreements demonstrate that Asia is rising to quickly fill the gaps left by current U.S. policy. For Americans, this is bad news as the U.S. will increasingly be left out of agreements and could be forced to cede power in organizations such as the WTO.”

Washington Examiner

“Mr. Trump picked fights with America’s largest economic partners because he assumes that, like him, they would focus on bilateral flows of finished goods and treat trade as a zero-sum game. That is proving wrong... The rest of the world will benefit from freer trade while American companies and consumers lose.”